My Valentine Premier

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Paul McCartney & crowd (including Autre's own Adarsha Benjamin seated on the left) at the My Valentine music video (directed by Paul himself starring Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp) premier at the Stella McCartney boutique in Los Angeles. McCartney will also be re-releasing his amazing first solo album Ram on May 21st. A deluxe edition box set will include a 112-page book, photo prints, copies of handwritten lyrics and notes and four CDs as well as a film that tells the making of the album on DVD, Ramming.

Dinner in Honor of Suicide's Alan Vega

Annual Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2012 will be held in honor of legendary artist and musician Alan Vega on Saturday, May 5, 8pm. Alan Vega and his band Suicide are widely regarded as the godfathers of “No Wave.” The group’s seminal 1977 album Suicide is cited as an important influence by musicians such as Joy Division, Nick Cave, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Horrors, The Cars, and Bruce Springsteen. This event is held exclusively for the Friends of Artists Space. A limited number of tickets are available. Please contact: friends@artistsspace.org to inquire about tickets or how to join the Friends of Artists Space.

Dark Sky

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On 6 June 2012 the second and the last transit of Venus of the century will occur. Departing from this extraordinary phenomenon, the Adam Art Gallery, in New Zealand, presents the exhibition Dark Sky which delves into the relationship between photography and astronomy to examine the intriguing photographic consequences and new territories discovered from capturing the skies. The exhibition has been timed to coincide with the 2012 Transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event when Venus passes between the Earth and the sun. The exhibition will be complemented by a public programme, including talks by scientists, artists and writers, including the German and New Zealand poets who have been commissioned by the International Institute of Modern Letters and the New Zealand Goethe-Institut to write about the Transit of Venus. Dark Sky will be on view from May 1 to June 8, at the Adam Art Gallery Victoria University, Gate 3, Kelburn Parade.

Infamous

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Renowned British photographer Terry O'Neill is launching an exhibition of his iconic images coupled with new, previously unseen works at Alon Zakaim Fine Art in London's Mayfair from May 1 until June 8, 2012.

Sébastien Tellier is a Blue God

Sébastien Tellier's insane new music video, directed by Alex Courtes, for his single Cochon Ville off his new album entitled My God Is Blue available next week via Record Makers. 

The Flaming Lips – Now I Understand

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As the Flaming Lips get closer to releasing their new album, entitled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends,  a limited edition vinyl record which features an the likes of Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, Nick Cave and Ke$ha, which is set for an April 21st release, they release a bonus track called Now I Understand which takes samples from the Iphone and Siri, and a vocal track by Erykah Badu.

Adarsha's Coachella 2012

Photography by Adarsha Benjamin

Doug Aitken's Song 1

One of the most important artist's working today is without a doubt Doug Aitken. From photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations Aitken's work is a truly unique and distinctive voice of this century. On view now at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., Aitken's multimedia exhibition, entitled Song 1, is a 360 degree projection of films onto the exterior museum set to the soundtrack of the 193os jazz standard reinterpreted by the likes of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, Beck, Devendra Banhart, No Age and more. Song 1 "will illuminate the entire facade of the Hirshhorn’s iconic building, transforming it into 'liquid architecture' and an urban soundscape. Using eleven high-definition video projectors, Aitken will seamlessly blend imagery to envelop the Museum's exterior, creating a work that redefines cinematic space." Doug Aitken: SONG 1 will be on view until May 13, 2012.

Autre @ Coachella

Cara Delevingne (left), Mickey Madden of Maroon 5, Lily Donaldson (center) between her cover and spread in the current issue of AUTRE at Coachella.

Paul McCartney's 'My Valentine' Featuring Natalie Portman

Last Friday at the Stella McCartney boutique in Los Angeles Paul McCartney premiered his music video for My Valentine off his current album Kisses on the Bottom. The video stars Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp.

Rub Out The Words

Rub Out The Words, the long awaited compilation of letters of William S. Burroughs.

Keith Haring's Notebooks

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The Keith Haring Foundation has been scanning Keith Haring's journals dating from middle school to 1989 – some of which are featured in the show of works at the Brooklyn Museum and a page will be post each day for the duration of the show through July 8, 2012. The show is the first large scale survey of the artist's early works.

Contains Nudity

Opening today in Los Angeles, an exhibition entitled Contains Nudity, is a retrospective of the nude fashion photography of Dazed & Confused Magazine co-founder Rankin. It includes some models with such household names as Kate Moss, Helena Christensen, Erin O’Connor, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Yasmin Le Bon and the former Mrs Seal, Heidi Klum. It will run for six weeks,until May 26th at the Rankin Gallery which is located at 8070 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, California.

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Dustin Dollin and Cara Delevingne with AUTRE ISSUE 002 at Coachella. Photograph by Adarsha Benjamin.

Bite It You Scum

GG Allin naked and smearing and throwing his own feces at the audience whilst performing his hit tune Bite It You Scum. Performance art or disturbing?

Crumb Retrospective in Paris

His LSD-inspired heroes, rampant sex and frontal assaults on political correctness made comic artist Robert Crumb an icon of US counter-culture, but why on earth, he wonders, put his work on show in a museum? Crumb's cult universe, from hippy-era characters like "Fritz the Cat" to his cartoon take on the Bible, is on show -- uncensored -- until August at Paris' Museum of Modern Art, hosting the largest-ever retrospective of his work. Many of the 600 works on display are original drawings shown for the first time, loaned by a handful of private collectors in Europe and the United States. Crumb: De l’Underground à la Genèse will be on view at the Paris Museum of Modern Art until August 19, 2012.

Fulton Ryder

Artist Richard Prince opens a gallery, rare bookshop, and publishing house called Fulton Ryder in NYC.

Chet Baker's Lost Memoir

Thanks to Michael Barrie for Chet Baker's lost memoir entitled As Though I Had Wings 

Fashion Fetish - Poppy De Villeneuve

Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Selling Sex, SHOWstudio launches Fashion Fetish, a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media pieces and accompanying essays by women in fashion. The latest addition takes us on a trip to the coastline, courtesy of acclaimed photographer and film director Poppy de Villeneuve.

Theater of the Street

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Since the invention of small hand-held cameras and faster films in the late 19th century, photographers have been fascinated with capturing everyday life in the urban environment. An exhibition of nearly 90 works will celebrate how photographers such as Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Beat Streuli creatively pursued a new genre of street photography, capturing the diversity and rapid pace of modern life.I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010 is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from April 22 to August 5, 2012.